Kevin J. O'Connor
United States Attorney
District of Connecticut

Appointed by President George W. Bush, Kevin J. O'Connor was sworn in on November 22, 2002 as the forty-eighth United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut. In January 2004, Attorney General John Ashcroft appointed Mr. O'Connor to serve a two-year term on the Attorney General's Advisory Committee of United States Attorneys. Mr. O'Connor also serves on the Advisory Committee's White Collar Fraud, Terrorism and National Security, and Environmental Issues Subcommittees.

Prior to his appointment as United States Attorney, Mr. O'Connor was a partner in the law firm of Day, Berry & Howard, where he specialized in securities enforcement, white collar criminal defense and corporate internal investigations. While with Day, Berry & Howard, Mr. O'Connor also served from 1999 to 2001 as Corporation Counsel for the Town of West Hartford, Connecticut.

From 1995 to 1997, Mr. O'Connor served as a Staff Attorney and Senior Counsel in the Division of Enforcement of the United States Securities & Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. From 1993 to 1995, Mr. O'Connor was a litigation associate at the law firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York City. From 1992 to 1993, Mr. O'Connor served as a law clerk to the Honorable William H. Timbers of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Mr. O'Connor is admitted to practice law in Connecticut and New York and before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the District of Connecticut, and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

Mr. O'Connor graduated in 1992 with high honors from the University of Connecticut School of Law and with honors from the University of Notre Dame in 1989.

Mr. O'Connor has previously served as an Instructor and Adjunct Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law and the National Law Center at George Washington University.